Microsoft 365 LTI is now Generally Available
Today, Microsoft is announcing a unified LTI® designed to make LMS integrations simple, with powerful capabilities to streamline and simplify deployment. Microsoft 365 LTI enhances your LMS platform whether you’re using Canvas, Schoology, Brightspace, Blackboard, Moodle™, or any other LTI 1.3 capable platform, making it easier than ever for educators and students to leverage the full suite of Microsoft 365 tools within their existing LMS workflows. The new Microsoft 365 LTI combines all the capabilities of the individual tools into one convenient tool--instead of managing multiple LTI integrations, you’ll have one unified solution that is more functional and easier to deploy and maintain. Educators and learners will benefit from a more seamless and up-to-date LMS experience for Microsoft 365 Education. Teach and learn with confidence knowing that Microsoft 365 LTI is backed by Microsoft's industry-leading security and compliance tools with Microsoft 365. Deploy and access the new Microsoft 365 LTI in your LMS with the overview and deployment guides. IMPORTANT: If you've already deployed the Microsoft 365 LTI in preview, you do not need to redeploy in your LMS – However there are a few action items for LMS admins with existing deployments: Review the deployment guide for any updates Revisit your Admin Settings, to review the apps enabled you wish your educators to have access to in their courses Ask your M365 Admin to re-consent to permissions to grant the app additional permission to display Meeting Recordings with the M365 Consent link Microsoft 365 LTI release debuts with OneNote Cass Notebook, Teams, Meetings and Reflect – all generally available. Microsoft Assignments, OneDrive, and Reading Coach join these experiences in preview and will transition to GA as ready. At-a-glance: The Microsoft 365 LTI is now generally available, bringing all your favorite Microsoft Education tools into a single, seamless experience inside your LMS. No more juggling multiple integrations - just streamlined access to everything educators and students need, right where they work. This includes: Unified access to OneDrive, Teams, Class Notebook, Reflect, and more, directly in your LMS Add content, create assignments, and schedule meetings - all from one place New – Reading Coach bringing reading self-practice for students to your LMS No need to enable multiple tools separately or clutter your LMS menus Available for all currently supported LMS platforms, including Canvas by Instructure, PowerSchool Schoology Learning, Blackboard by Anthology, D2L/Brightspace, and Moodle™, and for any LTI 1.3 Advantage compliant platform. Existing LTI retirements: Replaces deprecated Teams Meetings and Team Classes LTI tools sunsetting September 15, 2025 Replaces Microsoft OneDrive LTI, OneNote LTI, Teams Assignments LTI and Reflect LTI as they retire next September 17, 2026 Dive into the new Microsoft 365 LTI to streamline your LMS experience We are bringing our Microsoft 365 Education capabilities for learning management systems together into a single, unified tool to streamline the user experience. Educators will be able to access Learning Accelerators, Reflect, OneDrive, Teams, and more in their LMS courses, without having to enable multiple tools separately, and without overcrowding menus where LTI tools surface. Whether adding content to a module, creating an assignment, or scheduling a meeting for a class, you will be able to easily access Microsoft 365 Education related features directly in your LMS workflow. Microsoft 365 LTI is available for supported LMS platforms, including Canvas by Instructure, PowerSchool Schoology Learning, Blackboard by Anthology, D2L/Brightspace, and Moodle™, and for any LTI 1.3 Advantage compliant platform. Learning Accelerators and AI-enhanced assignments in your LMS - without Microsoft Teams (Preview) With the Microsoft 365 LTI, you will be able to use Learning Accelerators, multiple-document submissions, AI rubric and instructions generation, AI-assisted feedback, auto-graded Forms and other Microsoft Education assignment capabilities directly within your learning management system (LMS), without the need to create and sync a Microsoft Team for your class. Assignments in Microsoft 365 LTI no longer require Teams, enabling more LMS users to benefit from advanced, AI-enhanced capabilities that were formerly exclusive to Microsoft Teams for Education. Assignments can be created, managed, completed, and graded, without leaving your LMS, and grades and feedback will sync automatically to the LMS gradebook. This capability is included automatically in the new Microsoft 365 LTI tool. Existing, Teams-based assignments will continue to work and can be copied to new courses, so no migration is necessary. The assignments functionality in Microsoft 365 LTI replaces the classic Teams Assignments LTI which will retire next September 17, 2026. NEW! - Introducing Reading Coach in your LMS (Preview) Support independent reading with confidence. The Reading Coach student experience is now available in your LMS—offering students personalized reading practice, real-time feedback on fluency and pronunciation, with engaging AI-generated stories, library passages, and the option to add their own content to keep practice fun and fresh. Available now in preview. Teams and Teams Meetings Microsoft 365 LTI replaces the former Teams Classes LTI and Teams Meetings LTI tools which reach end of life on September 15, 2025. The new Teams and Teams Meetings experiences continue in Microsoft 365 LTI with improved user experiences where users can easily schedule, manage, and launch meetings from directly within their LMS course. The tool provides streamlined views of future and past meetings, attendance insights, and a “Meet Now” capability. NEW! view all of your meeting recordings on one place in the Recordings and files tab! Automatic rostering in Class Notebooks returns with the Microsoft 365 LTI In March, we announced the retirement of automatically adding newly rostered students and co-educators to OneNote Class Notebooks provisioned through the LMS using the LTI 1.1 integration. This much-loved feature is back in the new Class Notebook app in Microsoft 365 LTI. Any instructor in the LMS course can create a Class Notebook and all co-educators and students are automatically added to the notebook--even as the LMS roster changes. In addition, the new integration enables OneNote with the benefits of LTI 1.3 conformance and a modernized provisioning flow for educators to easily deploy new Class Notebooks for their courses. Existing notebooks created in the LTI 1.1 integration will continue to work, and sections and pages can be easily copied to new notebooks. The OneNote Class Notebook app in Microsoft 365 LTI replaces the classic OneNote LTI which will retire next September 17, 2026. OneDrive and Microsoft 365 files with embedded editors and new placements (Preview) The new Microsoft 365 LTI tool expands beyond the capabilities of the existing OneDrive LTI tool. The full capabilities of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, are now available within the LMS experience for attaching content resources, collaborative documents (including Collaborations for Canvas Courses and Groups), and students editing and submitting Microsoft 365 documents as an assignment without leaving the LMS. Documents can be embedded or linked into courses and other LMS activities including discussions, announcements, pages, with proper management of permissions to prevent oversharing, and with dedicated course-level storage to support proper document lifecycle management, assignment workflows, and use of Microsoft 365 Copilot. This functionality replaces the classic Microsoft OneDrive LTI which will retire September 17, 2026. Easily add Reflect to your classroom Microsoft 365 LTI also provides easy access to Microsoft Reflect to support student wellbeing in the classroom. Educators can create check-ins, view responses, and monitor trends within an LMS course. Users can access activities from Microsoft and partners such as Calm to support physical and mental wellbeing. The Reflect app in Microsoft 365 LTI replaces the classic Reflect LTI which will retire next September 17, 2026. For more information, and to keep up with future product announcements Please visit the Microsoft Tech Community Education Blog and subscribe to keep up with what’s new in Microsoft Education. We also hold bi-monthly office hours every first and third Thursday where lots of LMS + Microsoft 365 customers come to discuss scenarios and get assistance from peers, please join us. Microsoft 365 LTI Office Hours 1 st and 3 rd Thursday of each month @11am EST Join link: https://aka.ms/LTIOfficeHours How to get help or send feedback For any issues deploying the integration, our Education Support team is here to help. Please visit https://aka.ms/EduSupport Once deployed, the Microsoft 365 LTI integration has links to Contact Support and Send Feedback from right within the app. These can be found in the user voice menu in the upper right on any view that appears within the LMS. Learn more about Microsoft feedback for your organization. We can’t wait to hear your feedback! Try out the Microsoft 365 LTI today! Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (1edtech.org) The word Moodle and associated Moodle logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Moodle Pty Ltd or its related affiliates.Speaker Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education - now globally rolled out and generally available
We are so excited to announce that Speaker Progress, our newest Learning Accelerator, is now rolled out worldwide! Speaker Progress helps students develop confidence in their presentation skills and reduces anxiety by providing AI-powered real-time coaching and feedback on their public speaking skills like their pace, pitch, filler words, and more. Speaker Progress can also save educators t ime and create more opportunities for independent practice for in class presentations.
Microsoft Teams – Assignments for Specific Channels Without Selecting Students Individually
Hi everyone, Our secondary school is implementing Microsoft Teams with one Team per subject per year level (e.g., "Year 8 Science") instead of separate Teams for each class. The challenge is that multiple teachers teach different classes within the same Team. We want to: Set assignments that are only visible to students in a specific channel (without manually selecting students one by one). Grade assignments so that teachers only see and mark the work of students in their own class/channel, rather than all students in the Team. What We've Tried: Private Channels & Standard Channels: We found that you can’t assign work to a specific channel, whether it’s private or not. Groups: While you can assign work to a group, you still have to manually select each student, which isn’t practical. The alternative is a random selection, which doesn’t help. Saving Groups: You can’t save groups for future use, meaning we’d have to manually recreate them each time we set an assignment. Has anyone found a workaround for this? Are there settings, apps, or best practices that could help? Thanks in advance for any advice!What's New in Microsoft EDU webinar - March 2025
Join us on Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 for our latest "What's New in Microsoft EDU" webinar! These 30 minute webinars are put on by the Microsoft Education Product Management group and happen once per month, this month both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world.Learning Accelerators, Teams Assignments Generally Available for Blackboard by Anthology
Today we are pleased to announce general availability of the Teams Assignments integration for Blackboard by Anthology! Blackboard is the latest Learning Management System to move to GA with this powerful integration, with more on the way. The Teams Assignments integration brings the power of Microsoft Learning Accelerators and generative AI educator tools to your LMS, along with other engaging activities such as Flip videos, Auto-graded Forms, MakeCode projects, Whiteboards, and Reflect check-ins. Grades and feedback are automatically returned to the LMS gradebook. LMS admin resources for deployment: Blackboard Admin Deployment Guide NOTE: If you have already deployed the preview, you do not need to re-install - just keep enjoying the app! Educator resources for readiness: Using Microsoft Teams Assignments in Learning Management Systems Additional readiness for Microsoft Learning Accelerators: Support reading fluency practice with Reading Progress Develop confident presenters with Speaker Progress Develop search strategies with Search Coach and Search Progress Support building mathematics skills with Math Progress Build social and emotional skills in your classroom community with Reflect Achieve More with Assignments in your LMS The new Teams Assignments integration brings unique new capabilities into your LMS, saving educators time, and providing powerful tools to accelerate learning. For example, with Teams assignments you can: Leverage AI during assignment creation to rapidly draft assignment descriptions and rubrics Accelerate student learning and educator insights with Reading, Math, Search, and Speaker Progress assignments Deliver auto-graded quizzes with Microsoft Forms Access unique assignment types such as Microsoft Whiteboard, MakeCode, and Flip video Use Reflect exit check-ins to gain insights into student sentiment related to assignments Teams Assignments are seamlessly integrated with LMS assignments via the Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) v1.3 Advantage standard. As an educator, you can create new Teams assignments or link existing Teams assignments in your LMS course. Once linked, you can view and access those assignments as you would any other assignment in the LMS course. Your students can view and access their Teams assignments in the same way as their other LMS assignments. Assignment grades in Teams are automatically imported into the LMS gradebook. You can now use the best that Teams assignments and your LMS offer working together, instead of working alongside each other. Support for additional LMS platforms will be added soon! You can sign up here to receive information on current and future LMS integration previews. Choose the Right Tool for the Right Assignment Many educators are already using the OneDrive LTI® tool to bring M365 documents into LMS assignments. The new Teams Assignments LTI® tool is a complementary solution that brings unique capabilities of Teams for Education to LMS users. When creating an assignment in your LMS, you should choose the tool that best meets the needs of the specific assignment. Whatever the choice of tool, the assignment can be viewed and accessed like any other assignment in the LMS, and grades will be added into the LMS gradebook. Teams Assignments LTI® OneDrive LTI® What is it best used for? Learning Accelerators, Forms Quizzes, Whiteboard, MakeCode, Flip video, and other activities exclusive to Teams Assignments. AI-assisted assignment and rubric creation. Multiple Word, PowerPoint, Excel documents along with other activities can be required to be submitted by the student as part of a single assignment. Embedding or linking M365 documents in course content, discussions, announcements, or other LMS content. When a single or several documents are the focus of the assignment, announcement or discussion, and other Teams Assignments features are not needed. Collaborative editing of documents. Where are assignments graded? In Microsoft Teams, with grades and feedback automatically syncing back to the LMS gradebook. In the LMS, using the native LMS rubrics and gradebook. Requires Microsoft Teams for Education? Yes No How to get Help or give Feedback For any issues deploying the integration, our Education Support team is here to help: Please contact https://aka.ms/EduSupport Once deployed, the Teams Assignments integration has links to Contact Support and Send Feedback from right within the app. These can be found in the user voice menu in the upper right on any view that appears within the LMS. Leverage Microsoft Education for more than Assignments in your LMS The new Teams assignments integration is the latest advancement in our continued efforts to bring the full value of Microsoft Education to users of learning management systems. You can already use the capabilities of Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebooks, Microsoft Reflect directly within LMS courses. You can learn more about these integrations with leaning management systems such as Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, Schoology Learning and Moodle in our previous overview, and our support page. Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) is a trademark of the 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (www.1edtech.org)
